Definition of answer

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Answer (v. i.) To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care..

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Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication..
Catechism :: Catechism (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
Responsal :: Responsal (a.) Answerable.
Answer :: Answer (n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to..
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition..
Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer to a reply.
Responsibility :: Responsibility (n.) Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.
Sufficing :: Sufficiently (adv.) To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties..
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Verdict :: Verdict (n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause..
Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..
Rescript :: Rescript (v. t.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals..
Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..
Catechismal :: Catechismal (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical..
Underwrite :: Underwrite (v. t.) To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance..
Piracy :: Piracy (n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land..
Rescription :: Rescription (n.) A writing back; the answering of a letter.
Praenomen :: Praenomen (n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc..
Question :: Question (n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer..
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